----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Kronengold" <mneme at io.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:27 PM Subject: Re: A Riddle > Jeff G. writes: > >----- Original Message ----- > > >> Four came before me. > >> Two commanded me. > >> One was within me. > > I could almost make a case for the Saturn V rocket, but I don't think thats correct either. > >> Hermes's silver snake, > >> I speed but do not slither, > >> Burrow but do not dig. > >> What am I? I think I am being to literal with this one. Hermes's staff or kerykeion was often pictured as a snake. . . > > >> Famed am I. > >> Yet my final, fabled fate > >> is filetting flour. > >ummmmm, one more line please? > > ? I was asking for another line in the riddle. A hint would do nicely though. . Jeff